'''Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn''' (b. 1918) was a [[dissident]] in the [[Soviet Union]]. He was sent to prison and labor camps over a letter that criticized [[Joseph Stalin]]. His additional writing won him the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature in 1970 and exile from the Soviet Union (ordered out of the country) in 1974. He returned to [[Russia]] in 1994, after [[communism]] fell there. | '''Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn''' (b. 1918) was a [[dissident]] in the [[Soviet Union]]. He was sent to prison and labor camps over a letter that criticized [[Joseph Stalin]]. His additional writing won him the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature in 1970 and exile from the Soviet Union (ordered out of the country) in 1974. He returned to [[Russia]] in 1994, after [[communism]] fell there. |